Connie Wilson Goes On Book Tour



Quad-City Times



Yes, OUR Connie, beloved Deaniac extraordinaire, gets the full write-up in the Quad-City Times!



CONNIE Wilson’s got guts. She’s hitting the road next month to plug her book of essays and poems, “Both Sides Now.”



In
August and September, she’ll be stopping in Ames, Iowa; Greeley and
Canon City, Colo. In the fall, while her husband is attending a
conference in Baltimore, she’ll be signing books in Towson, Md.



What takes guts is that she knows, at best, a handful of people in each town.



“It’s a chance to see some friends in far-flung locales,” she said last week.



She hopes to get readings at each of the stores, and is taking along stacks of books to autograph.



If worse comes to worst, she’ll drag out her accordion.



“They
either flee from the room or they’re petrified,” said Wilson, who has
bounced around from bookstores to banks to libraries in her book tours
in the Quad-Cities.



Wilson’s
work has been getting good notice nationwide, with Writer’s Digest
calling it an enjoyable collection, “a little like eating pickles and
ice cream.”



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